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Clayton Cunningham, David Whiffin each found guilty of two offences against animalErin CardoneNews staff

Jalupae the horse was left to suffer by starvation, a judge found Tuesday.

Judge Sue Wishart found two Brentwood Bay resi-dents, Clayton Cunningham and David Whiffin, guilty of causing unnecessary pain and suffering to an ani-mal, as well as improper care and feeding. The case

stems from the emaciation and death by hanging of Jalu-pae, a 27-year-old Appaloosa gelding.

The two convicted men immediately left the Victoria Law Courts after the verdict was handed down.

“There is no doubt that people were shocked and horrified to learn how Jalu-pae died,” Wishart said in her judgment. “The term barbaric was used several

times in this trial to describe the method used. While this reaction is not surprising, I must consider only the evidence that was presented in this trial.”

Five people in the courtroom cried as the verdict was read.

Jalupae died as a result of being hanged from a rope tied to an excavator, on Sept. 15, 2009.

Stephen Oulette, a friend of Whiffin, who was present when the horse was hanged, told the court during the trial that the horse’s neck snapped and the animal died within a half-second.

The guilty verdicts, however, do not stem from the horse’s death.

Wishart said the facts that led her to find the men guilty of causing unnecessary pain and suffering are the same as those in the charge of improper care.

Men made horse suffer

“There is no doubt that people were shocked and horrified to learn how Jalupae died. The term barbaric was used several times in this trial.”

– Judge Sue Wishart

PLEASE SEE: Horse’s death wasn’t cruel, judge says, page A10

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Christine van ReeuwykNews staff

Job action is push-ing management to the burn out phase, forc-ing the school board

to consider moving recess.

In the Saanich school district, teacher con-tracts contain a stipula-tion of how long each week a teacher will participate in out of

class supervision. “With the job action

that means that the teachers didn’t have to supervise. So we have had to cover off recess, before and after school supervision with our management staff,” said board chair Wayne Hunter. “You can usually adapt for one or two months, but after that it gets into a little bit of a burn out situation where you’re working too many things off the corner of your desk.”

Superintendent Keven Elder, through a report to the board at its Dec. 5 inaugural meeting, suggested recess be moved to the end of each day to make supervision schedules a little less hectic.

“We have no prob-lem being behind if it’s work we can do in the evenings and on week-ends,” said Elder, who is among the manage-ment staff taking on the before, recess and after school supervi-sion times. “There’s work that can only be done on weekdays.”

Positions in human resources, transpor-tation, facilities and labour relations for example require week-day work.

“The ability to stay up to speed with the rest of the work has been significantly compromised by the three extra supervision times,” he said.

The board opted to use additional non-union staff to supervi-sion duties and review the supervision issue at the Jan. 18 public board meeting.

“You can’t have job action without some resulting con-sequences. You try to minimize those as much as you can but you can’t hold the fort forever,” Hunter said. “Going forward there will be more noticeable consequences from the job action. You just can’t get away from it.”reporter@peninsulanews

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School board ponders recess moveDid you know?Wayne Hunter was voted board chair at the board’s Dec. 5 meeting. He previously served as a two-term mayor of Central Saanich and councillor in Saanich.


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Carolling tradition in Sidney helps food bank

Armed with Santa hats, jingle bells and a guitar, five teens from Bayside middle school took to the streets of Sidney last weekend.

The group of 13-year-old girls sang Christ-mas carols along Beacon Avenue to raise money for the Sidney Lions Food Bank, col-lecting $400 in a few hours.

“We just thought it was pretty important to do it this year because a lot of young peo-ple aren’t helping out,” said Mackenzie Clark, who has made the event a Christmas tradi-tion for the past five years with her friend Erin Jackson.

Clark said she started the carolling after asking her mom what people with no home eat for Christmas and learning they often don’t get a Christmas dinner.

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Left to right, Ivy Elling Quaintance, Madison Paquette, Mackenzie Clark, Erin Jackson, Mikayla Sibbald and Jamie Copeland sing Christmas carols on Beacon Avenue on Sunday.

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Nearly a hundred people hissed and booed four members of North Saanich council, before walking out of a meeting en masse in dis-appointment.

Councillors Dunstan Browne, Ted Daly, Craig Mearns and Conny McBride voted against a two-part recommendation Monday night. Had the vote passed, it would have had the municipality sign a memorandum of understanding with the Agricultural Land Com-mission on the use of 83 acres of land at the former Sandown race track, and release $9,000 for an environmental study of the land.

Councillors Elsie McMurphy and Celia Stock, and Mayor Alice Finall voted in favour of the rec-ommendation.

“Stupid, ignorant people,” a man yelled from the standing room only audience in council chambers, before leav-ing.

The voting lines on council mirror the results from the Dec. 5 meeting, that helped

bring Daly to the seat of Capital Regional District board director, ousting Mayor Alice Finall from the position.

Browne, McBride, Mearns and Daly all told Bill Randall, owner of Sandown, they needed more information on the costs associ-ated with holding the land in the Agricultural Land Reserve for per-petuity. Browne said he was con-cerned the project could cost the municipality millions for drainage, environmental repair and demoli-tion of existing buildings.

“I think we’ve got to do a lot more investigation,” Browne said partway through the 1.5-hour discussion. “If this is going to be a huge financial problem for the district, I’d be abdicating my duties to say yes to it.”

Echoed Daly: “In principle I agree with it. What I would like to see is that if this is the extent of the business case … I’ve got a lot of concerns about that because

it’s a two page report.”The plan would take 12 acres of land near

McDonald Park Road out of the ALR, to develop into commercial property. In return, he will donate the rest of the 83-acre parcel to the municipality for agricultural use. The district would also put 12 acres of its own land back into the ALR.

“Maybe we shouldn’t put (83) acres of land in the ALR for per-petuity,” Daly said, garnering loud groans from the people in atten-dance.

Finall said that by approving the night’s two-part recommendation, council would have received the information that was missing.

Referring to Randall’s address to council earlier, where he indi-cated he’d wait a while, but not much more than six months for approval before selling the land to multiple developers, McMur-phy said, “In fact, we have the potential for losing that whole thing. There’s no point having the discussion if we don’t have the

land to talk about. Let’s get this prize in our pocket, then decide what we want to do

with it.”She was answered by long

applause from most people in the chambers.

Chief administrative officer Rob Buchan said that once the MOU with the commission is signed, minor changes could still be made, such as allowing trails through the wooded area for pub-lic use.

Before the final vote, Browne proposed that council table the project until council’s meeting on Jan. 16.

He, McBride and Mearns voted for the tabling. Finall, Stock, McMurphy and Daly voted against it, with Daly commenting that tabling, for the sake of tabling, didn’t get council the information it sought either.

Buchan said staff will now wait for a decision from council on where to go next with the proposal.

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Erin McCrackenNews staff

When news broke last week that police had arrested a woman for abducting her baby daughter 18 years ago, there was no one more shocked than Greater

Victoria school district superintendent John Gaiptman.

The idea that the woman – a former president of Victoria High school’s parent advisory council – and her daughter – a Vic High graduate –

were going by aliases seemed unfathomable.

Patricia O’Byrne, who police say was living in Victoria for a number of years as Pam Whalen, is now in Toronto, facing one charge of abduction in violation of a custody order, dating back to 1993.

O’Byrne and Joe Chisholm had just been granted joint custody, when O’Byrne

allegedly left Toronto with their 20-month-old.

On Wednesday, the judge in the case placed a publication ban on the daughter’s name.

O’Byrne’s motive for going to “such extraordinary lengths” is still a mystery, but will likely come to light at trial, said Det.-Sgt. Dean Burks, who oversees the Toronto police youth and family services investigation unit, which is leading the case.

As well as investigating those who may have aided and abetted O’Byrne over the years, detectives will likely levy additional charges against O’Byrne in the next two weeks related to impersonation or identity fraud, forgery and obtaining

government documents in assumed names.

“It’s certainly not a groundbreaking revelation that she was able to do it,” Burks said.

“Once you can get one piece of government identification, everything else will fall into place,” he added.

Detectives say they don’t yet know if O’Byrne stole her cover identity and that of her daughter, or whether she created them.

Regardless, her alternate identity was strong enough that she worked in public affairs for the provincial government from 2004 until May 2011.

But O’Byrne’s daughter learned of the deception on her own “in the not too distant

past” and confronted her mother about her abduction, Burks said. “When (investigators and counsellors) met with her last week and informed her what had taken place, she wasn’t surprised.”

The daughter didn’t go to police, however. Rather, an anonymous tipster told the Missing Children Society of Canada in September that O’Byrne was living on the Island as Pamela Whalen.

In early October, Toronto investigators called Saanich police, who connected O’Byrne to a Victoria address.

VicPD was called in to conduct surveillance to verify the woman’s identity, before her arrest last Thursday at her Fernwood home.

The case has left educators in the Greater Victoria school district struggling for answers to difficult questions about the use of false identities.

“When the news first broke, I went and reviewed the information (on file) and as I’m looking at (the young woman’s photocopied) passport I’m thinking there has to be a mistake,” said

Gaiptman, who has never known a case like it in his 30 years as an educator, including 11 as School District 61’s superintendent of schools.

All it took for O’Byrne to enrol her daughter at Vic High was proof of residence and a birth certificate, which Gaiptman said was authentic.

After graduating in 2009, O’Byrne’s daughter used her passport a few months later to enrol in a continuing education program at S.J. Willis to upgrade marks in two courses.

“Given the amount of custodial issues out there we want to see the birth certificate,” Gaiptman said. “Having said that, this was somebody that provided us with the government documents and as it turned out they were incorrect.”

Gaiptman said he doesn’t know what more the educational system could have done when the teen was initially enrolled in school.

“Is there any way, as the attending school, we could have caught it?” he wondered.

The answer is no, Burks said.

“I don’t think the school boards or anybody could have done any more,” the 25-year police veteran said.

“You have to take people (such as parents) at their word. You can’t create an air of paranoia, that people are automatically going to be showing up and having kids enrolled in school under false names.”[email protected]

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Erin McCrackenNews staff

When news broke last week that police had arrested a woman for abducting her baby daughter 18 years ago, there was no one more shocked than Greater

Victoria school district superintendent John Gaiptman.

The idea that the woman – a former president of Victoria High school’s parent advisory council – and her daughter – a Vic High graduate –

were going by aliases seemed unfathomable.

Patricia O’Byrne, who police say was living in Victoria for a number of years as Pam Whalen, is now in Toronto, facing one charge of abduction in violation of a custody order, dating back to 1993.

O’Byrne and Joe Chisholm had just been granted joint custody, when O’Byrne

allegedly left Toronto with their 20-month-old.

On Wednesday, the judge in the case placed a publication ban on the daughter’s name.

O’Byrne’s motive for going to “such extraordinary lengths” is still a mystery, but will likely come to light at trial, said Det.-Sgt. Dean Burks, who oversees the Toronto police youth and family services investigation unit, which is leading the case.

As well as investigating those who may have aided and abetted O’Byrne over the years, detectives will likely levy additional charges against O’Byrne in the next two weeks related to impersonation or identity fraud, forgery and obtaining

government documents in assumed names.

“It’s certainly not a groundbreaking revelation that she was able to do it,” Burks said.

“Once you can get one piece of government identification, everything else will fall into place,” he added.

Detectives say they don’t yet know if O’Byrne stole her cover identity and that of her daughter, or whether she created them.

Regardless, her alternate identity was strong enough that she worked in public affairs for the provincial government from 2004 until May 2011.

But O’Byrne’s daughter learned of the deception on her own “in the not too distant

past” and confronted her mother about her abduction, Burks said. “When (investigators and counsellors) met with her last week and informed her what had taken place, she wasn’t surprised.”

The daughter didn’t go to police, however. Rather, an anonymous tipster told the Missing Children Society of Canada in September that O’Byrne was living on the Island as Pamela Whalen.

In early October, Toronto investigators called Saanich police, who connected O’Byrne to a Victoria address.

VicPD was called in to conduct surveillance to verify the woman’s identity, before her arrest last Thursday at her Fernwood home.

The case has left educators in the Greater Victoria school district struggling for answers to difficult questions about the use of false identities.

“When the news first broke, I went and reviewed the information (on file) and as I’m looking at (the young woman’s photocopied) passport I’m thinking there has to be a mistake,” said

Gaiptman, who has never known a case like it in his 30 years as an educator, including 11 as School District 61’s superintendent of schools.

All it took for O’Byrne to enrol her daughter at Vic High was proof of residence and a birth certificate, which Gaiptman said was authentic.

After graduating in 2009, O’Byrne’s daughter used her passport a few months later to enrol in a continuing education program at S.J. Willis to upgrade marks in two courses.

“Given the amount of custodial issues out there we want to see the birth certificate,” Gaiptman said. “Having said that, this was somebody that provided us with the government documents and as it turned out they were incorrect.”

Gaiptman said he doesn’t know what more the educational system could have done when the teen was initially enrolled in school.

“Is there any way, as the attending school, we could have caught it?” he wondered.

The answer is no, Burks said.

“I don’t think the school boards or anybody could have done any more,” the 25-year police veteran said.

“You have to take people (such as parents) at their word. You can’t create an air of paranoia, that people are automatically going to be showing up and having kids enrolled in school under false names.”[email protected]

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Roszan HolmenNews staff

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada is coming to Victoria.

On April 13 and 14, the regional event will provide an opportunity to more than 2,000 aboriginals to share their experiences of residen-tial schools, either by making a pri-vate or a public statement. Survi-vors, their families and school staff are invited to make a presentation. Emotional support will be available to anyone in need.

The public is also invited to come and bear witness to the stories, and are asked to share them with their own communities.

Activities will include traditional ceremonies, survivor gatherings,

education day and witnessing sur-vivor statements. Smaller events will be held in Port Hardy, Campbell River, Duncan and Port Alberni.

“The (commission’s) regional event is an opportunity for all Cana-dians, both aboriginal and non-aboriginal, to learn more about and bear witness to the legacy of the Residential School system,” said commission chair, Justice Murray Sinclair.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established as a result of the 2007 Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement.

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A campaign concern over transparency was put to rest after council opted to adapt its proce-dures in Central Saanich.

Coun. Adam Olsen, one of the election candidates who heard concern from res-idents about the practice of not record-ing votes in the official minutes of coun-cil, is pleased to see the change.

The procedure bylaw said that when a council member requested, his or her vote would be recorded in the minutes.

That practice wasn’t followed until 2008. That was early in Olsen’s first term as councillor. For the last 18 months of his previous term the re-elected council member opted to have his votes regis-tered each time.

“It’s a bit distracting to have to ask,” he said. “It became pretty clear that folks were concerned that we weren’t recording votes.”

The issue will come back before council, which asked staff to bring forward an amendment to the procedural bylaw to record the names of members on all votes on motions, positive or negative.

“The appetite is there for the whole council. They just really wanted the transparency because it really came up during the election that it was important to people,” said Coun. Cathie Ounsted, administration and finance committee chair.

The only exception would be on unanimous motions.

Heritage farmhouse protected in rezoning move

Central Saanich hopes to use a heritage revi-

talization agreement to keep historical Ferguson farmhouse.

The property owner applied to the district to consolidate and subdivide two properties to the northeast of Mount Newton X Road at Central

Saanich Road. The result would be three properties: Ferguson farmhouse on 0.6 acres; another newer house on 0.74 acres; and 0.84 acres added to adjacent farmland. Both properties are zoned agricultural and lie within the Agricul-tural Land Reserve and the ALC has approved the proposal. The benefit to agriculture in the community was a prime factor in council supporting the agreement and moving the proposal for-ward.

“The protection of a very, very old historic farmhouse was important as well,” said Olsen, chair of the planning

and development committee. Ferguson farmhouse, built in 1904, is listed in

the Central Saanich historical buildings inventory.A public hearing will be held in the new year.

Housing development’s height brings plan back to council

A height variance request marks phase three of the Brentwood shopping centre redevelopment.

Central Saanich council OK’d the two extra feet sought for the fifth building in the redevelopment of the centre at West Saanich and Verdier roads.

The district approved the development four years ago, but a change in road grades meant allowing for a little more height to the multi-family residential building slated for the back portion of the property. It will go to a development variance permit hearing in the new year.

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the corner of Towner Park and West Saanich roads and bent to tie her shoe. When she looked up and saw the bus approach-ing, the 17-year-old ran across

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I can’t see it, but my friend says her eyelid is tapping out an irritat-ing non-stop beat.

“Did you see that? My eye just twitched,” she says, pointing at the irksome spot just above the upper eyelid of her right eye. “Sometimes I’m talking and I feel like people can see it.”

The twitchiness, which she says is likely a sign of stress, arrived Dec. 1.

It’s no coincidence her eyelid began jumping on the very day that many retail sales associates, including my friend, will tell you signals shoppers to pick up the present-buying pace before Christmas day arrives.

“Everyone’s in a rush. Every-one’s trying to get that perfect gift. Everyone’s trying to get the last one,” she says.

In a way, my friend wants to be added to everyone’s gift-giving list, her name pencilled in between Aunt Dorothy and Cousin Bob.

But she doesn’t want a gift-wrapped package that holds a shiny and expensive item, one that would likely be forgotten long before next Christmas anyway.

The trinket she treasures most is patience, with a dollop of kindness thrown in for good measure.

As a customer service represen-tative working in retail she’s on

the front lines helping the crush of stampeding shoppers purchase their heart’s desire.

She’s talented at what she does, regardless of the pressures she will

continue to face in the midst of the Christmas rush, and even when cus-tomers come back to her store to return some of the items they purchased.

Through it all, she treats customers with kindness, sharing her smile and being as cour-teous as her work shift is long, even after standing for hours on end.

But with Christmas around the corner, it seems the festive sea-

son has skewed our knowledge of basic manners – all those things we repeat like broken records to our children.

Strangers, whether it’s the store greeter or the associate behind the counter gift-wrapping the present you just bought, should not bear the brunt of our busy lives.

Many of us are in a hurry to the extent where patiently waiting our turn, and a quick, ‘Hi, how are you?’ have become too time-con-suming to manage.

Take the other day when my friend was on shift.

She was speaking with a cus-tomer out on the floor when another customer walked up and,

without even an “excuse me,” inter-rupted with a question, eventually followed by snarkiness.

Unfortunately, she’s not the exception this holiday shopping season.

It seems working in sales is like being a bomb disposal expert, with the customer as the bomb. Sometimes, no matter what you do, things can derail pretty quickly, taking the merry out of merry Christmas and reinforcing the hum-bug in bah humbug.

“(The situation is) like a zit wait-ing to pop,” my friend says, adding that this year seems to be the sea-son of relentless rudeness.

Given all the people on our Christmas shopping lists, is it really that difficult to add a few extra people – even if we don’t know them?

No matter how long the lines are or how many people I want to buy gifts for, I’ll make it a priority to wait patiently in line for my turn at the cash register, offer my retail sales associate a smile and wish them a happy holiday.

“It doesn’t have to be anything big,” my friend adds.

It’s an opportunity to ensure the holiday eye twitching doesn’t spread. It’s also a way to pay the holiday spirit forward, and it doesn’t cost anything at all.

Erin McCracken is a reporter with the Victoria News.

[email protected].

Shoppers, a little patience please

‘The trinket she treasures most is patience.’

Science needs our support

It’s human nature to question the importance of things we can’t comprehend, especially if we’re being asked to foot some of the bill.

But there are reasons we must continue to support scientific endeavours, probably much more than we do now.

There was worldwide excitement this week when scientists working at Europe’s CERN facility announced the results of research into the elusive Higgs boson particle.

Despite the promising announcement on Tuesday, scientists still have plenty of work to do before they can confirm the existence of the Higgs boson.

The particle remains an exceptionally complicated idea about something that exceptionally complicated theories tell us is important to our ideas of how nature works.

It was coined the “God particle” by a publisher looking for a way to make a book about the Higgs boson appeal to a wider audience.

The name has stuck, much to the chagrin of physicists who know there are many more mysteries to contemplate beyond the puzzles of this particular particle.

The University of Victoria has played a key role in the development of the particle accelerator at CERN used to search for the Higgs boson. Being involved has cost the country somewhere in the neighbourhood of $100 million. But more importantly, being involved has allowed UVic to attract some of the sharpest minds in the world.

Science, more than ever, requires an international approach and Canada would be remiss not to be at the table. The spin-offs are huge and easy to understand. CERN itself gave us the World Wide Web, which began as a platform for scientists around the globe to share information.

The particle accelerators used to study the esoteric world of quantum physics are not that different from CAT scans used for decades now to take detailed medical images.

Greater Victoria works well as a region to incubate a vibrant high tech industry. Being involved with great international science can only help our region attract the brainy thinkers who can serve to inspire all of us.

Erin McCrackenPaper trail

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Yes on referendum for municipal amalgamation

Thanks to Pirjo Raits for the column on the possibility of amalgamation (Hard Pressed, Dec. 2).

I would certainly vote yes on a referendum.

Each community could have citizen councils that would advise their local representative to council. That or something better.

Joanna WilkinsonVictoria

Penny collection began in memory of parents

I would like to share my pennies for Christmas story.

It all started when my mother passed away early in the morning on Christmas (Dec. 25, 1982). In her loving memory I started collecting pennies and every Christmas I faithfully rolled and donated $25 in pennies to the Salvation Army.

I continued to collect the pennies and donated them each Christmas for 12 years until my father passed away

on Dec. 21, 1994. I have this feeling I could have been

the original person to start the pennies for Christmas especially since I started collecting them 29 years ago. I am glad it caught on and that more people are doing this. It is a good thing to help out the less fortunate at Christmastime.

Tamara ShielsVictoria

Editor’s note: You too can help raise money for local charities. Drop off your spare change to the Peninsula News Review’s Coins for Kids drive at 6-9843 Second St. Proceeds benefit the Sidney Lions Food Bank.

Wheels writer’s vehicle knowledge needs sharpening up

I enjoy your motoring section, but this week Alyn Edwards (Classic Rides) has not run a tight ship.

Concerning the Deutsches Museum he spells Alfa Romeo incorrectly, as Alpha Romeo. In the Ford special he writes “nearly unique” when unique means singular, being one of a kind, having no

like or equal or parallel, which means something is either unique or not unique and cannot be nearly unique.

Also, he describes the Horch as a leather-lined road car, when what he meant to convey was that the top was leather-lined.

It might have been nice to mention that the Protos, which crossed the line first in the great Paris-New York race of 1908, was in fact subsequently being restored right here on Vancouver Island. I saw it myself in the restoration shop a few years ago.

H.U.P. EdwardsNorth Saanich

Kitchen scrap containers must be raccoon-proof

It is a great idea for the city to collect kitchen scraps for composting.

However, the green containers need to be tightly secured – and I mean tightly – as in guaranteed tight.

No doubt raccoons, the population of which is abundant in this part of the city, will follow their sense of smell and overturn these kitchen scrap containers and pry off the lids as they have done repeatedly with my garbage cans, even

when they were weighted down with bricks. This would result in me having to clean up the mess. Yuck, dirty hands.

Municipal politicians, please take note.Sheri Tromp

Victoria

Yes Victoria, there is such a thing as a free lunch

We have just returned from a holiday in Oak Bay.

During our visit we dined at Swans Hotel restaurant in Victoria and had an excellent meal and service.

We spoke to a young couple at the table next to us, mentioning among other things, that we were on holiday from the U.K.

After finishing their drinks they bid us good day and wished us to enjoy a happy holiday. A few moments later the waitress came and said the couple had paid our bill.

We were bewildered and did not know what to say or do.

We would like to express our thanks to this young couple and wish them well for a healthy and prosperous future.

Brian and Glennys Benton-Smith Derbyshire, England

Pennies, amalgamation, kitchen scraps, friendly city Readers respond:

The federal government has announced an exciting NIMBY project. It will put nature in millions of backyards by establishing Canada’s first urban National Park in the country’s largest urban area.

Nestled in the east end of the Greater Toronto Area, Rouge National Park will be unlike any other. It won’t offer the panoramas of Jasper or Banff, or provide a safe haven for polar bears, like Manitoba’s Wapusk National Park, or be larger than some European countries, like Wood Buffalo National Park. But it will help connect urban dwellers with nature and ultimately protect and restore a once great forest.

Rouge National Park will be established within the heart of one of the fastest growing urban areas in North America, with millions of people already living outside its borders. Home to a wealth of plant and animal life, like snapping turtles, butternut trees, and rare wetland flowers, the area’s significant and growing

human footprint is already evident – two major highways, nearby housing estates, and stormwater drainage. Managing existing and future infrastructure in the park, especially roads, will be critical so the growth and spread of surrounding suburbs don’t adversely impact its sensitive ecology.

Some parts of the park have been degraded after decades of human use, so extensive restoration efforts will have to go hand-in-hand with formal federal protection of this urban wilderness.

For example, restoring the Rouge’s once verdant Carolinian and Great Lakes forest canopy will be important because a long history of agricultural land use and timber harvesting has dramatically reduced the amount of old and mature forest in the area. Intact mature and old-growth forests are rare in northeastern North America, making up less than one per cent of forested land. Remnant patches of old forest are small

and isolated within a second-growth landscape that continues to be damaged by human activities like aggregate mining, industrial agriculture, and urban sprawl. Many scientists fear that further loss and fragmentation of remaining old forest cover will threaten wildlife that relies upon those conditions to survive.

Plant surveys conducted since the early 1900s in southern Ontario, the Maritimes, and New England have found, for example, that some plants, like American yew, do well in undisturbed forests but are so sensitive to human land use that they are often absent or rare in recovering second-growth forests.

Scientists believe these plants are not able to fully recover in abandoned farm fields or old logging sites, even after hundreds of years, because the habitat is no longer suitable.

Use of mechanical logging and agriculture methods, such as wheeled skidders and tractors,

often destroys rotten logs and compacts and levels the ground, removing the pits and mounds that are important for the growth of many forest-dependent species, such as Indian pipe, wood sorrel, and yellow birch.

Given the importance of these habitat features to the recovery of forest plants and animals, Parks Canada, in

partnership with local community groups, regional conservation authorities, universities, and others, will need to work to restore areas in Rouge Park by planting indigenous tree species, removing invasive species, and in some places re-introducing and re-creating, by hand, the special features that are largely missing from the park, such as old dead logs, mounds and pits, and vernal

ponds.Much of this restoration work

is already underway. A local conservation group, Friends of the Rouge Watershed, has planted more than 100,000 native trees and wildflowers in a monumental effort to reforest a section of the park that was set aside in honour of the late Bob Hunter, who helped start Greenpeace and is considered the father of the modern environmental movement in Canada. The group now hopes to restore critical features, such as old logs, ponds, and other habitat, in Bob Hunter Memorial Park as well as other nearby Rouge Park sites.

It’s a fitting tribute to the memory of a great environmental hero, and it’s a wonderful gift to the people of Toronto, and indeed, all of Canada, who will see the lustre restored to this once great forest. Spending time in nature is good for physical and mental health. Having a National Park in the city’s backyard will offer benefits for generations to come.

David Suzuki Science Matters

Resurrecting Eden on the edge of a cityA6 • www.peninsulanewsreview.com Friday, December 16, 2011 - PENINSULA NEWS REVIEW

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The Peninsula News Review is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council.

Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to B.C. Press Council, 201 Selby St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 2R2. For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.

2010

OUR VIEW

What do you think? Give us your comments by e-mail: [email protected] or fax 250-656-5526. All letters must have a name and a telephone number for verification.

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Jim Parker PublisherErin Cardone EditorVictoria Calvo Production ManagerBruce Hogarth Circulation Manager

I can’t see it, but my friend says her eyelid is tapping out an irritat-ing non-stop beat.

“Did you see that? My eye just twitched,” she says, pointing at the irksome spot just above the upper eyelid of her right eye. “Sometimes I’m talking and I feel like people can see it.”

The twitchiness, which she says is likely a sign of stress, arrived Dec. 1.

It’s no coincidence her eyelid began jumping on the very day that many retail sales associates, including my friend, will tell you signals shoppers to pick up the present-buying pace before Christmas day arrives.

“Everyone’s in a rush. Every-one’s trying to get that perfect gift. Everyone’s trying to get the last one,” she says.

In a way, my friend wants to be added to everyone’s gift-giving list, her name pencilled in between Aunt Dorothy and Cousin Bob.

But she doesn’t want a gift-wrapped package that holds a shiny and expensive item, one that would likely be forgotten long before next Christmas anyway.

The trinket she treasures most is patience, with a dollop of kindness thrown in for good measure.

As a customer service represen-tative working in retail she’s on

the front lines helping the crush of stampeding shoppers purchase their heart’s desire.

She’s talented at what she does, regardless of the pressures she will

continue to face in the midst of the Christmas rush, and even when cus-tomers come back to her store to return some of the items they purchased.

Through it all, she treats customers with kindness, sharing her smile and being as cour-teous as her work shift is long, even after standing for hours on end.

But with Christmas around the corner, it seems the festive sea-

son has skewed our knowledge of basic manners – all those things we repeat like broken records to our children.

Strangers, whether it’s the store greeter or the associate behind the counter gift-wrapping the present you just bought, should not bear the brunt of our busy lives.

Many of us are in a hurry to the extent where patiently waiting our turn, and a quick, ‘Hi, how are you?’ have become too time-con-suming to manage.

Take the other day when my friend was on shift.

She was speaking with a cus-tomer out on the floor when another customer walked up and,

without even an “excuse me,” inter-rupted with a question, eventually followed by snarkiness.

Unfortunately, she’s not the exception this holiday shopping season.

It seems working in sales is like being a bomb disposal expert, with the customer as the bomb. Sometimes, no matter what you do, things can derail pretty quickly, taking the merry out of merry Christmas and reinforcing the hum-bug in bah humbug.

“(The situation is) like a zit wait-ing to pop,” my friend says, adding that this year seems to be the sea-son of relentless rudeness.

Given all the people on our Christmas shopping lists, is it really that difficult to add a few extra people – even if we don’t know them?

No matter how long the lines are or how many people I want to buy gifts for, I’ll make it a priority to wait patiently in line for my turn at the cash register, offer my retail sales associate a smile and wish them a happy holiday.

“It doesn’t have to be anything big,” my friend adds.

It’s an opportunity to ensure the holiday eye twitching doesn’t spread. It’s also a way to pay the holiday spirit forward, and it doesn’t cost anything at all.

Erin McCracken is a reporter with the Victoria News.

[email protected].

Shoppers, a little patience please

‘The trinket she treasures most is patience.’

Science needs our support

It’s human nature to question the importance of things we can’t comprehend, especially if we’re being asked to foot some of the bill.

But there are reasons we must continue to support scientific endeavours, probably much more than we do now.

There was worldwide excitement this week when scientists working at Europe’s CERN facility announced the results of research into the elusive Higgs boson particle.

Despite the promising announcement on Tuesday, scientists still have plenty of work to do before they can confirm the existence of the Higgs boson.

The particle remains an exceptionally complicated idea about something that exceptionally complicated theories tell us is important to our ideas of how nature works.

It was coined the “God particle” by a publisher looking for a way to make a book about the Higgs boson appeal to a wider audience.

The name has stuck, much to the chagrin of physicists who know there are many more mysteries to contemplate beyond the puzzles of this particular particle.

The University of Victoria has played a key role in the development of the particle accelerator at CERN used to search for the Higgs boson. Being involved has cost the country somewhere in the neighbourhood of $100 million. But more importantly, being involved has allowed UVic to attract some of the sharpest minds in the world.

Science, more than ever, requires an international approach and Canada would be remiss not to be at the table. The spin-offs are huge and easy to understand. CERN itself gave us the World Wide Web, which began as a platform for scientists around the globe to share information.

The particle accelerators used to study the esoteric world of quantum physics are not that different from CAT scans used for decades now to take detailed medical images.

Greater Victoria works well as a region to incubate a vibrant high tech industry. Being involved with great international science can only help our region attract the brainy thinkers who can serve to inspire all of us.

Erin McCrackenPaper trail


A plan for John Road will wait until the next review of the official commu-nity plan.

The new council had a crack at the application to amend zoning and the offi-cial community plan for a proposal for 1950 John Rd.

During a Nov. 14 meeting, the previous council sent the plan to add a second 11-unit building to the property to the advisory planning commission.

The developer has already received a permit to build a similar 11-unit hous-ing development on the front half of the property located near the new North Saanich middle school.

Council agreed with the commission’s recommendation to defer the applica-tion until after the next review of the offi-cial community plan, slated for 2012.

“It is spot rezoning,” said Mayor Alice Finall “Spot rezoning is poor gover-nance.”

Some discussion also surrounded the inclusion of a below market rate unit in the new development aimed at ben-efitting the district’s affordable housing goals.

Roger Tinney, the project’s planner, told the News Review that the expected selling price of the below-market 1,000-square-foot, two-bedroom unit incorporated into the design would be about $165,000.

Proposal would split Canora land into four parts

Council hopes to have servicing ques-tions flushed out before it can OK an application to rezone land at 9299 Can-ora Rd.

The advisory planning commission will also have a look at a rezoning appli-cation.

Property owner Jonathan Rennison

hopes to rezone the 1.5 acre lot, which is adjacent to one-third acre lots on Bak-erview Avenue, from rural agricultural to single family residential.

The plan is to eventually subdivide the family property into four lots for him and three siblings.

“I’m only seeking a rezoning, I haven’t submitted a subdivision application yet,” Rennison said. Sewer connections in the area are at capacity and he’s wait-ing to hear what costs are associated with sewer upgrades.

“I like living in North Saanich,” Renni-son said. “I’m a carpenter by trade and I’d like to end up building a house on one of these properties for myself.”

A five metre trail on the southern boundary of the property would be ded-icated as a public trail linking Reay Creek Park and Rotary Park.

Council will have staff prepare the bylaw to amend the zoning, and defer adoption until the applicant addresses increased servicing needs.

Seaside changes allowed in North Saanich

A new home in North Saanich got the OK to alter its shoreline landscaping.

Council approved the development permit to alter landscaping at 2139 Win-cott Rd. during new construction.

The work approved is in the marine foreshore and uplands. District of North Saanich staff said it would not signifi-cantly alter the site conditions or affect runoff to a degree where it would nega-tively impact the marine environment, and it does meet permit guidelines.

Five townhouses OK’d for McDonald Park

A development of the right size and right place will grow on McDonald Park Road. North Saanich issued a develop-ment permit for five townhouse units at 10500 McDonald Park Rd., an application that didn’t require any variances.

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A below market pricing development at 1950 John Rd. won’t go ahead until the OCP is changed, possibly to allow higher density.

A Central Saanich man lost his car and licence temporarily after an afternoon stop on Highway 17.

The driver was stopped by Central Saanich police after he was spotted speeding along Saanich X Road, then swerving on Island View Road. He failed a roadside screening and was returned to the sta-tion for further testing. The man was charged with impaired driving and ticketed $196 for driving without consid-eration. His vehicle was towed and impounded for 30 days.

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A plan for John Road will wait until the next review of the official commu-nity plan.

The new council had a crack at the application to amend zoning and the offi-cial community plan for a proposal for 1950 John Rd.

During a Nov. 14 meeting, the previous council sent the plan to add a second 11-unit building to the property to the advisory planning commission.

The developer has already received a permit to build a similar 11-unit hous-ing development on the front half of the property located near the new North Saanich middle school.

Council agreed with the commission’s recommendation to defer the applica-tion until after the next review of the offi-cial community plan, slated for 2012.

“It is spot rezoning,” said Mayor Alice Finall “Spot rezoning is poor gover-nance.”

Some discussion also surrounded the inclusion of a below market rate unit in the new development aimed at ben-efitting the district’s affordable housing goals.

Roger Tinney, the project’s planner, told the News Review that the expected selling price of the below-market 1,000-square-foot, two-bedroom unit incorporated into the design would be about $165,000.

Proposal would split Canora land into four parts

Council hopes to have servicing ques-tions flushed out before it can OK an application to rezone land at 9299 Can-ora Rd.

The advisory planning commission will also have a look at a rezoning appli-cation.

Property owner Jonathan Rennison

hopes to rezone the 1.5 acre lot, which is adjacent to one-third acre lots on Bak-erview Avenue, from rural agricultural to single family residential.

The plan is to eventually subdivide the family property into four lots for him and three siblings.

“I’m only seeking a rezoning, I haven’t submitted a subdivision application yet,” Rennison said. Sewer connections in the area are at capacity and he’s wait-ing to hear what costs are associated with sewer upgrades.

“I like living in North Saanich,” Renni-son said. “I’m a carpenter by trade and I’d like to end up building a house on one of these properties for myself.”

A five metre trail on the southern boundary of the property would be ded-icated as a public trail linking Reay Creek Park and Rotary Park.

Council will have staff prepare the bylaw to amend the zoning, and defer adoption until the applicant addresses increased servicing needs.

Seaside changes allowed in North Saanich

A new home in North Saanich got the OK to alter its shoreline landscaping.

Council approved the development permit to alter landscaping at 2139 Win-cott Rd. during new construction.

The work approved is in the marine foreshore and uplands. District of North Saanich staff said it would not signifi-cantly alter the site conditions or affect runoff to a degree where it would nega-tively impact the marine environment, and it does meet permit guidelines.

Five townhouses OK’d for McDonald Park

A development of the right size and right place will grow on McDonald Park Road. North Saanich issued a develop-ment permit for five townhouse units at 10500 McDonald Park Rd., an application that didn’t require any variances.

[email protected]


2x1BB blu ray

NS not ready for higher density proposal

file photo

A below market pricing development at 1950 John Rd. won’t go ahead until the OCP is changed, possibly to allow higher density.

A Central Saanich man lost his car and licence temporarily after an afternoon stop on Highway 17.

The driver was stopped by Central Saanich police after he was spotted speeding along Saanich X Road, then swerving on Island View Road. He failed a roadside screening and was returned to the sta-tion for further testing. The man was charged with impaired driving and ticketed $196 for driving without consid-eration. His vehicle was towed and impounded for 30 days.

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For the Piersons of Central Saanich, their relationship with Peninsula Co-op really is a family affair.

Both Neil and his wife, Patty, buy their groceries and gas from the Co-op, and for both their children, Robbie, 22, and Miranda, 16, the Co-op also provided their very fi rst jobs.

The benefi ts of the Co-op to both Pierson children have been many.

Not only does the Co-op offer good wages and benefi ts, plus an opportunity to learn invalu-able skills, but it also offers terrifi c fl exibility for students, who can work around school

and sports schedules, for example, Patty says.

“They employ so many of the kids in the community,” Neil notes, pointing out that, “most of the kids around here have worked at Peninsula Co-op.”

For their own needs, Neil and Patty ap-preciate both the values of the locally based com-pany and the fact that it’s just down the road, whether

for picking up the week’s gro-ceries at the Food Centre or fi lling up the tank in the car.

The fact that the Peninsula Co-op staff are always friendly and eager to lend a hand

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grocery store,” Patty says.

That community feel extends to the company’s support for many organizations, from sports teams and local events to a company-wide commitment to the Tour de Rock. In addition, the Co-op makes a number of larger contributions to initiatives such as the Queen Alexandra Foundation for Children’s Jeneece Place.

And, for families like the Piersons, when the annual Co-op rebate cheque lands in the mailbox – a timely event just before Christmas – the rewards of membership make the holidays just a little more special.

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A photo from the summer of 2009 shows an emaciated Appaloosa, Jalupae, on David Whiffin’s property in Brentwood Bay.

The convicted men failed to feed and properly treat the elderly horse, causing it to suffer. Throughout the summer of 2009, SPCA officers, vet-erinarians and other people respon-sible for Jalupae’s care told both Whiffin and Cunningham on multiple occasions the horse’s teeth were in poor condition, meaning the animal couldn’t swallow hay.

Veterinarians told both men – Whiffin, who owned the horse and the property involved, and Cunning-ham, who was in charge of caring for Jalupae and two other horses on the farm – that Jalupae needed to be on a special diet that was easier to swallow than hay. In addition, the horse’s teeth needed to be floated, or filed. Whiffin said he didn’t want to pay for the dental care or for the special food.

The vets, as well as the SCPA constables, offered euthanization options for the horse. The officers ordered that Jalupae either receive proper care, or be euthanized.

On Sept. 15, Cunningham looped

a rope around Jalupae’s neck, while Whiffin worked the excavator, jerking the bucket to snap the horse’s neck. The animal was taken to a hole Whif-fin dug earlier, and buried.

SCPA officers Erika Paul and Lyn-say Bailey did not ask for the body to be exhumed, though Whiffin offered the action. Therefore, there is no proof as to how Jalupae died, Wishart said.

Amanda Sather, a member of the activist group Justice for Jalupae, was in the courtroom during the verdict, becoming emotional as the judgment was read.

“It was what we were expecting,” she said of the verdict afterward. “What matters now is the sentence. That means everything. It sends a message to other animal owners.”

The men’s sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.

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Provincewide ban suggested by health, environmental organizationsRyan FlahertyNews staff

A coalition of 22 health and environmental groups is calling on the provin-cial government to implement a provincewide ban on pesticides for cosmetic use.

The challenge was issued in the midst of a government-led pub-lic consultation on the subject, which wraps up today (Dec. 16).

The group, which includes such organizations as the Canadian Cancer Society, David Suzuki Foundation, Green-peace and the Public Health Association of B.C., says the province needs to act fast to protect the health of its citizens, especially children.

“There are a number of municipalities – now 39 – that have adopted pesticide bylaws, but this doesn’t protect all British Columbia children from the unnecessary effects of these chemi-cals,” said Kathryn Seely, public issues direc-tor with the Canadian Cancer Society, B.C. and Yukon division.

Those effects can be very serious, even deadly, said Gideon Forman, the executive director of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the

Environment, a Toronto-based group with more than 5,000 members nationwide.

“Science that we’ve reviewed suggests that kids, in particular, are at a much greater risk for cancer and neurological illness if they’re exposed to pesticides,” Forman said.

The coalition would like to see legislation put in place that prohibits the use, sale and retail display of chemical pesticides for lawns, gardens

and non-agricultural landscaping. It would only provide exemptions in cases where there was a public health issue.

Several CRD municipalities have bylaws that target “non-essential” pesticide use. However, without provincial legislation there is no way to regulate the sale of the chemicals, making enforcement

difficult.“It’s not impossible, but it’ll be that much stron-

ger when they bring in a ban on sales,” Forman said. “When you can’t buy these poisons, you can’t use them, and kids are protected.”

According to a 2010 poll conducted on behalf of the Canadian Cancer Society, more than 70 per cent of B.C. residents support some kind of provincial legislation restricting the use of pes-ticides.

If B.C. were to implement a pesticide ban, it would be the first province in Western Canada to do so.

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between Vancouver Island and the Lower Main-land over the holiday season.

More than 100 of those sailings, between now and Jan. 2, will address the traditionally high holiday demand between Swartz Bay and Tsaw-wassen. Dec. 26 to 28 are expected to be the busiest days for ferry travel over the holiday sea-son. Schedules are reduced for the low demand Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.

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Panorama hosts New Year’s partyRing in the new year with friends and family at

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On the morning before a press confer-ence some said could herald the scientific dis-covery of the century, Rob McPherson and his wife were debating who would take their son to early hockey practice.

McPherson, an adjunct professor at the University of Victo-ria and his wife, Isabel Trigger, are both parti-cle physicists involved in research that’s trying to further our under-standing of how every-thing as we know it

came to be.Serving as a spokes-

person for Atlas-Can-ada, McPherson ended up staying home to watch the announce-ment by the Euro-pean Organization for Nuclear Research, bet-ter known as CERN.

“It’s fantastically exciting,” McPherson said about the news, which he spent the day explaining to media out-lets across the country.

McPherson and Trig-ger are among 3,000 physicists working with the Atlas team at the Large Haldron Col-lider near Geneva, Swit-

zerland. Atlas and a competing team known as CMS both released results on Tuesday offering a tantalizing glimpse into the behav-iour of the elusive Higgs boson particle.

The Higgs boson has so far only existed as a theory, though one necessary for the Stan-dard Model of physics to work.

“Higgs, by itself, can’t be the whole story,” McPherson said. “There has to be something else to keep it stable.”

Which is why McPherson thinks that while calling Higgs

boson “the God parti-cle” is a great way to capture the public’s imagination, there are many more questions that need answering.

If scientists succeed in definitively discov-ering the Higgs boson particle – expected to happen next year – the next step will be to find what else it is hiding. Theories about myster-ies such as dark mat-ter, thought to make up most of the matter in the universe, and even extra dimensions in spacetime could be opened up for closer study.

UVic has played a key role in the devel-opment of Atlas, which searched for the Higgs boson by using the massive particle accel-erator at CERN. Par-ticles are torn apart at tremendous force and slammed into layers of lead and liquid argon.

Scientists measure how the energy produced by the collision relates to theories about what we already know about subatomic particles. What scientists with both Atlas and CMS found was evidence of activity on a scale that fits into where theo-ries suggest the Higgs boson should be.

Finding this elusive particle is a big deal because it would help with our understand-ing of what happened in the first trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. That’s how long it took, theories suggest, before “stuff” began to stick together in our universe.

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Laura LavinNews Staff

Directed by Elizabeth MacIsaac, Ensemble Laude is an award-win-ning women’s community choir dedicated to singing intercul-tural choral repertoire and early music (pre-1600). Its upcoming concert, The Beloved, features a diverse selection of choral works celebrating adoration in all its forms, including signature pieces from the medieval period, upbeat Renaissance and French-Canadian songs, and a sampling of exciting contemporary works.

“Ensemble Laude has been in existence well over 10 years now,” said MacIsaac. “It began at one-third or one-fourth the size it is now. Ten singers in my basement over the years expanded to 30 or 40.”

It is an inclusive choir. “You don’t have to have been singing choral music for a long time or be able to read music. It just seems to be the kind of person who likes to

experience rarified music and can hold a tune. The age group is vast. Right now the youngest is 14 and I’m not allowed to say how old the oldest is.”

MacIsaac has led choirs for more than 25 years in Canada and France.

She enjoys an international career as a vocalist specializing in early music and new commissions of contemporary music.

Spanning from east to west, ages past to present, from divine rapture to sweet romance, The Beloved explores the jour-

ney of the heart’s song. There will be surprise guests and moments of comic relief, including P.D.Q. Bach’s Throw the Yule Log On, Uncle John.

“We always include medi-eval repertoire as part of concert’s choral diversity. I do a lot of travel around the world finding music for the female voice.”

This concert however, will include male voices, adding depth to the madrigals and some of the comedic pieces.

The Beloved shows at

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For more information visit www.ensemblelaude.org.

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Mummers Masque is an ode to the English tradition of mum-mering, when holiday revellers (called mummers) roamed door-to-door dressed in disguise, offering amusement and entertainment in the form of music, dance and a play.

In exchange for food, drink and warmth they sang, danced and acted out the story of Father Christmas, St. George and the Dragon, a Turkish knight, death and rebirth.

“This is a very interesting Christmas show that is an inter-esting change from the Christmas standards that are out this time of the year. It is a short, family-oriented opera by Cana-dian composer Dean Bury,” said director Joanne Hounsell.

Instead of opening your door this year, you’ll be able to see the mummers at St. Ann’s Academy in Victoria. Shows run Dec. 16 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 18 and 19 at 2:30 p.m.

Presented by Saltwater Theatre, the Mummers Masque invites guests to a rollicking, fun Christmas story for all.

Tickets are available at the door 45 minutes before curtain or in advance at the McPherson Box Office at 250-386-6121.

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A Dickens Christmas classic

Ebenezer Scrooge comes to Market Square this December for two free perfor-mances of a Christ-mas classic. London-trained Jason Stevens presents Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol on Dec. 17 at noon and 2 p.m. in the square, 560 Johnson St.

Island songstress brings Tidings

Experience the warm cheer of the season when Tidings returns to Fairfield United Church, fea-turing the voices and music of Nanaimo-based troubadour Alli-son Crowe and special guests Hayley Walker and Billie Woods.

The concert, a spir-ited holiday tradition in Victoria in support of Artemis Place and HepC B.C., is set for 8 p.m. Dec. 17 at 1303 Fairfield Rd.

Tickets are $20 or $15 for seniors and students, avail-able at Lyle’s Place,

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Deadline looms for music awards

Artists should gather their music released this year or last and fill nomination forms for the 2012 Vancouver Island Music Awards, which will be held April 21 in Victoria.

This will be the eighth instalment of the event. Details are online at www.island-musicawards.com. The deadline is Dec. 31.

Get vesper ready for new year

Jazz Vespers con-tinue on Jan. 8 with Ken Lister and Pat Coleman, and on Feb. 12 with the a cappella jazz singing group Rhapsody Belle.

Services begin at 7 p.m. at St. John’s United Church, 10990 West Saanich Rd.

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Performers from Saltwater Theatre prepare to face off during a tale told during the Mummers Masque.

Mummers break winter blues

The Peninsula Players present the now-tradi-tional pantomime again this winter.

They’ll bring Robin Hood, in panto form to The Centre in Brentwood Bay (1229 Clarke Rd.) this weekend. Visit peninsulaplayers.bc.ca for ticket information.

The show runs at the Mary Winspear Centre starting next weekend through to the end of the month. Visit marywinspear.ca for ticket and show-time information.

Win a pair of tickets to the Christmas panto-mime, Robin Hood, at the Mary Winspear Centre. The News Review has two pairs of tickets, one set for 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 23 and a pair for 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 27.

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Veterans give backLeft to right, Cathie McGinnity, president-elect of the Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans of Sidney Museum Unit 302 Karen Morgan of Saanich Peninsula Hospital Foundation Lieut. (N) Laura Bollen, commanding officer of the Admiral Budge sea cadets, Evelyn Stuart from Broadmead Care Society, and Charmain Lee, meat draw chairperson. The Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans, or ANAVETS, dished out $9,600 between three organizations recently. The money was raised from the group’s meat draws, held three times per week. Over the past 63 years, ANAVETS in Sidney has given out nearly $1 million to local charitable organizations. ANAVETS gave $3,000 each to thehospital foundation and the care society. The sea cadets received $2,600.The local ANAVETS hosts its special Christmas meat draw on Sunday (Dec. 18), from 3 to 5 p.m. at 9831 Fourth St.

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KIDS’ FEST AT the B.C. Aviation Museum in Sidney Dec. 27 and 28 – a fun and educational event for kids Grade 6 and under. (Kids free, adults admitted by donation). Come anytime between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 1910 Norseman Rd. For info call 250-655-3300 or visit www.bcam.net.

POLAR BEAR SWIM hosted by Peninsula Celebrations is Jan. 1 at noon. Enjoy an invigorating start to the new year with a polar bear swim near

the beach access at Lochside Drive (just down from Tulista Park).

CENTRAL SAANICH LIONS Christmas tree recycling, 1703 Keating X Rd. runs Jan. 2, 7, 8, 15 and 16 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. by donation. Funds raised go to the B.C. Lions Lake Shawnigan Kids Camp.

MeetingsTHE ROYAL CANADIAN

Legion Branch #37 will be holding its general meeting on Sunday, Dec. 18 at 2 p.m. This meeting will also be the election of officers. All members are welcome to attend.

THE PENINSULA NEWCOMERS Club is holding a special luncheon for its members on Jan. 12 at Haro’s Restaurant (Sidney Pier Hotel) to celebrate its 25th anniversary. If you would like to join our club, please check out our website at www.

peninsulanewcomers.ca.

THE CENTRE’S FRIDAY Forum Speaker Series continues Fridays at 1 p.m. University docents and other knowledgeable speakers will cover a diverse range of topics. The presentations are open to the public. Admission is free. Refreshments will be served. Contact The Centre between 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday to Friday, 1229 Clarke Rd. 250-652-8999 [email protected].

Misc. THE NORTH SAANICH

middle school reunion steering committee is looking for the school’s yearbooks from between 1977 and 1996. Anyone with copies they can lend to the reunion organizers can drop them off at the Sidney Archives, 2440 Sidney Ave. before Dec. 25. Call 250-656-1322 for info.

THE CENTRE FOR Active Living 50+ at 1229 Clarke Rd., Brentwood Bay offers a bridge clinic Saturdays 1 to 4 p.m. and Mondays 1 to 4 p.m. for more advanced players. Two free sessions offered. Contact 250-652-4611 or [email protected].

MusicTHE ARMY, NAVY, Air

Force Unit 302 offers up live music Friday nights. Bands perform from 7 to 11 p.m. The unit is at 9831 Fourth St., Sidney. On Friday, Dec. 16 enjoy oldies by The Elderly Brothers; Dec. 30 dance to D.J. Randy.

VolunteersSPEED WATCH: SIDNEY

North Saanich RCMP is actively seeking volunteers to take part in its Speed Watch program. To learn more about the program, pick up the brochure and application at the RCMP detachment in Sidney or call program co-ordinator John Enright 250-656-3931.

SIDNEY HISTORICAL MUSEUM needs volunteers. If you would like to help for shift each week, call Peter, 250-655-6355. No experience necessary.

THE NEWS REVIEW provides this community calendar free of charge, giving preference to Saanich Peninsula clubs, organizations

and individuals holding non-profit events in our readership area. Publication

is not guaranteed. Calendar items should be mailed, dropped off at our office, or e-mailed to [email protected].

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DIANA LAUZON c/o PAMELA MOORE

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FOUND NEW Novel, McDo-nald Park Rd & Hwy 17. If yours please call to identify ti-tle (778)977-7500.

LOST: PAIR of black gloves with 2 gold rings inside, Sid-ney area. Reward. Call (250)656-2478.

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GETAWAYS

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MURCHIES TEA tins (5) $25, Star Wars Trilogy $25, Star Trek anniversary set (5) $25. Call (250)508-9008.

NEC. TURN Table, quarts d.d. $45. Sony receiver & speak-ers, $45. 250-370-2905.

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RENTALS

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FERNWOOD AREA Apt, largeBach, $640/mo. Avail now.Call 250-370-2226 for viewing.

MALAHAT 1 & 2 Bdrms- Panoramic views. Serene &secure. All amenities on-site,fi rewood. $700-$1200 inclu-sive. Monthly/Weekly. Pets okwith refs. 25 min commute todowntown Victoria. Must havereferences. 250-478-9231.

APARTMENTS FURNISHED

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HOMES FOR RENT

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SIDNEY AREA: 7 yr old, 4 bdrm, radiant heat, gas fi re,garage, 5 appl’s, games room,and much more. $2500, Jan.15th/Feb. 1st. 250-516-8086.

SIDNEY: OCEAN view, 3bdrm, 2 bath, close to town,$1950/mo. 1-877-353-5552 [email protected]

ROOMS FOR RENT

COLWOOD, UNFURN’D roomavailable, incls all utils, $500mo. (Immed) 250-858-6930.

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SUITES, LOWER

CENTRAL SAANICH- 1 bdrmsuite, furnished or unfur-nished. $750. utils incld. N/S,N/P. Now avail. 250-652-0296.

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Travis PatersonNews staff

Sitting in the bleachers of the dive tank at Saanich Common-wealth Place, Riley McCormick looks up at the rest of the com-petition.

The springboards and plat-forms are packed with divers from across Canada taking turns in preparation for the Winter National diving championships underway until Sunday (Dec. 18).

Some dives evoke claps – though with divers hitting the water every five seconds, it’s hard to know which ones to watch.

“As big as this event is, you don’t want to peak yet. This is still just the stepping stone,” McCormick said.

“At the same time, you can’t take it too lightly.”

The goal this weekend is for McCormick to finish in the top two on the 10-metre platform, thereby qualifying to represent Canada at the Diving World Cup in London, England this Febru-ary.

“That’s where you want to hit your best.”

Not only is the World Cup a test event for the London Olym-pics in July, competing there would put McCormick on track for his second appearance at the Olympic games, having finished 16th in Beijing 2008.

The 20-year-old is on leave from Arizona State where he competed the past two seasons, finishing second in the NCAA on the 10m in his rookie year and winning the PAC 10 conference on the 10m both years.

“The NCAA was pretty hectic coming out of high school. Prac-tices were twice a day plus a full course load, and we competed almost every weekend.”

And when the NCAA season ends, the international season begins.

“It’s easy to burn out.”Which is why McCormick

told his school he’d be taking this year off to campaign for the Olympics when they recruited him from Claremont secondary school three years ago.

McCormick is among several senior members of Saanich’s Boardworks diving club com-peting this weekend, including Fraser McKean (Auburn Univer-sity) and Shane Miskiel (Ohio State), as well as Rachel Kemp, last year’s 10m silver medallist at the summer nationals.

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The Noodle Box in Sidney first opened its doors in mid-April of 2011, and the reception has been incredible. Offer-ing a large variety of South East Asian stir-fries, soups and curries, you are sure to find something on the menu that will satisfy exactly what you’re looking for.

If food allergies are a concern, their menu is very flexible with offering allergy-friendly options, gluten-free options, and others to suit specific dietary needs.

While some menu items contain a degree of spice most are available from very mild spice to Suicide Hot. A descrip-tion of each level of spiciness is available in the restaurant as well, ensuring that your meal is created to perfection. The Noodle Box prides itself on its ability to accommodate individual preferences with any item on the menu.

If you’re looking for a tasty and healthy lunch or dinner (each menu item has 4-5 servings of vegetables in every box), The Noodle Box is able to create your meal quickly and efficiently with the option of dining in, or taking out. If you prefer to have your meal brought to you, they offer delivery from 4:00pm every day. Check out their daily fresh specials and $9 lunch options from Mon-Fri. In a rush or need to save time? Call ahead and we’ll have your food ready when you get here. For more information check us out at www.thenoodlebox.net

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December 18 • 2:00 p.m.

The Charlie White Theatre(Mary Winspear Centre)

December 21, 22 & 23 • 7:30 p.m.December 27, 28 & 29 • 2:00 p.m.

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Chris Hall to be sidelined for start of NLL seasonTravis PatersonNews staff

The same week the Washington Stealth opened its pro lacrosse exhibition sea-son, head coach Chris Hall began his fight against cancer.

Hall, a Victoria Shamrocks legend, leads a heavy contingent of Victoria coaches and players that make up the Stealth fran-chise based in Everett, Wash.

After the Stealth played the Toronto Rock in a preseason match hosted at the Langley Events Centre on Saturday, Hall, who lives in Victoria, spoke for the first time since starting a six-week treatment

for throat cancer, with which he was diag-nosed in early November.

“It’s overwhelming how much support I’ve gotten from friends and family in the lacrosse world,” Hall said in the team’s post-game video. “I didn’t know if I’d make it this weekend and it’s been fantas-tic to be here, really helped me through.”

It’s a considerable achieve-ment by Hall considering he underwent heavy bouts of chemotherapy and radiation treatment.

Hall is hoping to make this weekend’s camp in Everett, then take a step back.

The Stealth’s game versus the Rock was a rematch of the 2010 and 2011 National

Lacrosse League Champions Cup, which the Stealth won in 2010 and lost in 2011 under Hall’s guidance.

Assistant coach Art Web-ster, also a former Sham-rocks coach and player, will assume the head coaching role during Hall’s leave.

The Stealth boasts a core of current and former Sham-rocks such as Lewis Ratcliff and Rhys Duch, as well as an ex-Victoria Salmon King player vying for a regular season spot, Milan Gajic.

The latter was the lone Gajic to take a crack at pro

hockey while brothers Nenad, Ilija and Alex played college lacrosse and are now on the Colorado Mammoth of the NLL.

Former Shamrocks coach battles cancer

Chris Hall

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Over Limit Price:$1.49/lb, $3.28/kg

ChristieSnack CrackersSelected, 100–250g

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